Call from a bed of pain. I must go and will,

Though all the world cry shame on my dishonour;

And with me I will take my love, my bride,

To glad the old man's eyes. My mind is fixed;

I cannot stay, I cannot rest, away

From Bosphorus. (Summons Messenger) Go, call the Lady Gycia.

(Resumes) Ay, and my oath, I had forgotten it.

I cannot bear to think what pitiless plot

Lysimachus has woven for the feast.

What it may be I know not, but I fear